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All adrift on asylum seekers

November 18, 2009 – 10:25 am

The Australian is giving it to Kevin Rudd over the Oceanic Viking today, and not without reason. I tend to agree with Dennis Shanahan and Paul Kelly – of course there was a special arrangement, and for Rudd to try to hold a line of denial on that point is a ridiculous attempt at impression [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Dennis Shanahan, Paul Kelly | Tagged , | Comments (10)

Lunacy, meet incoherence

September 17, 2009 – 11:30 am

Greg Sheridan thinks allowing women to join all front-line Army units is lunacy – “the single stupidest idea I have heard in my life,” he calls it. But his column in rebuttal of the proposal is one of the more incoherent pieces I’ve read lately – pulling in strands from a whole range of different [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged , , | Comments (40)

Because we’ve got to have friends

May 29, 2009 – 11:04 am

I’m sitting here trying to get Greg Sheridan’s latest column straight in my head. Apparently, it’s up to Kevin Rudd to get a US ambassador to Australia appointed – pronto. Because it’s incredibly bad that the post is vacant. And the post was vacant for 18 months between the two ambassadors appointed by George W [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Comments (7)

Four months and five days

May 26, 2009 – 9:27 am

Yesterday Barack Obama had been President of the USA for four months and five days when the loopy North Korean regime detonated its second nuclear blast (the first was three years ago — three years before Obama was President.) Obama-haters everywhere have gleefully pointed their fingers at his diplomacy-centred approach to foreign affairs.
Greg Sheridan:
THE new [...]

By Scott Bridges | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (11)

Yesterday an opinion writer, today a gossip columnist?

May 14, 2009 – 4:38 pm

Greg Sheridan has a scoop:
What is Kevin Rudd planning to do after his stint as our Prime Minister? In the past few weeks I’ve heard from three quite credible sources that the PM has given a lot of thought to having a shot at becoming the UN secretary-general.
After starting with such a bang, I’m sure [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Tagged , , | Comments (13)

Asylum seeker column cage-match

April 16, 2009 – 4:21 pm

The Australian has published two takes on the political issues about unauthorised boat arrivals.
Greg Sheridan says:
It may well be that the Government’s softened policies on border control have led to the recent sharp upsurge in illegal arrivals. If so, this has the potential to become extremely toxic politically – and to do so very fast.
There [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Mike Steketee | Tagged , , | Comments (49)

Nyer, nyer, nyer

March 28, 2009 – 4:25 pm

Could Bolt’s (and Sheridan’s) pieces here and here be any more childish and petty?
Obama chose to spend no more than the more or less minimum time that any Australian prime minister would get with the President.
So, you know, there.

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged , , , | Comments (13)